Questions tagged [cfaa]
Questions involving the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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Could there be a legal risk in a captcha defeat browser plugin?
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, or captcha's, have become more common recently, in particular from cloudflare. If one used or distributed a browser plugin ...
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Is it illegal to create code that causes damage to a computer system?
I'm reading about the Computer Abuse Amendments Act of 1994 and I just read: 'it is illegal to create any type of malicious code that might cause damage to a computer system.' Can someone clarify ...
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Is download Public S3 AWS Buckets illegal?
What are S3 Buckets?
An Amazon S3 bucket is a public cloud storage resource available in Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3), an object storage offering. Amazon S3 buckets, which ...
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Is the NSO Group guilty of computer crimes?
The NSO Group is the company (based in Israel but American-owned) which appears to be responsible for the software used to penetrate WhatsApp.
The case seems to have a lot of parallels with the ...
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